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task #10497: Submission of SimRoof

Submitter:  Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer>
Submitted:  Mon 12 Jul 2010 12:36:04 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sun 11 Jul 2010 04:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Wed 21 Jul 2010 04:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Approved Projects to be Reviewed Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexfernandez Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 22 Nov 2010 07:13:30 AM UTC, comment #12: 

The README is fine now, thanks! Closing this task.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Mon 22 Nov 2010 03:58:58 AM UTC, comment #11: 
Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer>
Sun 21 Nov 2010 10:04:20 PM UTC, comment #10: 

Hi,

There are some issues pending from the project registration
process. Is the project in Savannah ready for review?

Thanks!

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Mon 04 Oct 2010 11:15:06 PM UTC, comment #9: 

You can add an HTML redirect or a 301 redirect. However, Savannah is not a code hosting site; we expect developers to move their project over completely. The preferred solution would thus be to upload all documentation to Savannah, and redirect from [your old home http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SimRoof] to here.

Note that the short URL would be http://simroof.nongnu.org/, which is quite convenient.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Mon 04 Oct 2010 11:05:37 PM UTC, comment #8: 

How do I change the SimRoof "Homepage" to
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SimRoof

Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer>
Sun 03 Oct 2010 10:47:11 AM UTC, comment #7: 

Hi again,

The project is mostly fine so I am going to approve it. There are however a couple of requests and a suggestion:

  • The status of the data is clear, but it would be good to explain it in a README file or similar.
  • You are also distributing a binary file radhouse.ico without copyright information attached. In these cases we recommend adding this information to the README file, explaining filename, author and license.
  • The suggestion is to place all source code inside an src/ folder, instead of leaving it in the top directory. Source code organization is very important for a successful project IMHO.


You can work on the requests in the version control system of your choice, inside Savannah.I am leaving this task open so you can let us know when the project is ready for review, OK? Welcome, and have fun!



I've approved your project--welcome on board! :-)

You'll receive a mail notification with further instructions shortly.

--
Happy hacking!

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sat 02 Oct 2010 10:26:55 PM UTC, comment #6: 
Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer>
Sat 02 Oct 2010 08:10:04 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Hi Aubrey,

Great, please submit a tarball when you are ready.

Having an open task requires periodic monitoring, so it really does consume someone's time; as you will know we are volunteers and the time we can devote to admin tasks is very limited. If it is going to take you more than a few weeks to be ready for review we can close the task and you can resubmit whenever you are ready. But given that you have some code to review it would be best at this point to go ahead with whatever you have.

Alex.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sat 02 Oct 2010 01:49:21 AM UTC, comment #4: 


> Are you still planning to use Savannah? If not, please tell us


You asked me to tell you if I WASN'T planning to use Savannah.  But I am planning to use Savannah.

SimRoof is running simulations; I am working on the documentation.
<http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/cool/CoolRoof>
<http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/cool/SolarScreens>

> --this will make us gain some time to review other projects.


Is SimRoof's presence in the queue really consuming someone's time?  If so, I can remove it.  Let me know.

Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer>
Fri 01 Oct 2010 11:07:36 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi,

I am waiting for an answer from you.

If within two weeks I still do not get a reply, I will remove
your project.  You will still be able to register it again once
you have the time to deal with the registration issues.

Are you still willing to host your project at Savannah? If not,
please tell us--we don't bite, and it will make us gain time.

--
Regards.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sat 25 Sep 2010 09:32:45 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi,

Sorry for delay.

Are you still planning to use Savannah?  If not, please tell
us--this will make us gain some time to review other projects.

--
Regards.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Sun 05 Sep 2010 09:33:14 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Aubrey,

Sorry for the delay, there is a bit of backlog after the summer Holidays. I am reviewing your submission on behalf of Savannah, but since there is no code to review there is little we can do to move forward. I suggest that you close this submission and resubmit when you are ready.

As to the status of binary data, you might want to ask your question on the savannah-hackers-public mailing list for an authoritative answer. From my limited understanding as a non-lawyer, the legal status of raw data is that it cannot be copyrighted in the US. In the EU raw data (like phone databases) can be copyrighted by the organization collecting the data, so it would be enough to have a written statement from Dr Vacca to the effect that the data are placed in the public domain (a file distributed along with the tarball would be enough). The status of the program used to generate the data is not important, as it just follows a mathematical model which cannot be copyrighted. But again, please subscribe to savannah-hackers-public if you want to be sure.

Thanks, Alex.

Alex Fernandez <alexfernandez>
Mon 12 Jul 2010 12:36:04 AM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or discards the registration.


Registration Administration


While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group Administration page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively logged as site administrators (superuser):



Registration Details


  • Name: SimRoof
  • System Name:  simroof
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later





Description:

In the tropics, the roof tends to be the dominant conduit of solar heat into single-story buildings.  And, unless perched alone on a mountaintop, the roof is also the dominant source of radiative cooling.  Roofs, then, are an important part of the thermal design for tropical buildings.

Accurate modeling of the net flow of thermal-infrared radiation to and from a roof turns out to be complicated, involving tropospheric radiative-transfer integrals and high-resolution atmospheric transparency data.

SimRoof is the first program to do this modeling for the variety of conditions experienced through the typical-meteorological-years available from the "National Solar Radiation Data Base", <http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2005/tmy3/>.

SimRoof models one square meter of a horizontal roof instead of a whole prototypical building.  The performance of this low-slope roof component can be applied to any building in which it is installed in the calculated TMY region.



Other Software Required:

Scm+LGPL+https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/scm/
Slib+Other+https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/slib/
Wb+LGPL+https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/wb/



Other Comments:

I didn't check the boxes for:

  All my files include valid copyright notices [1]
  All my files include a license header [1] [2]

because the text-format atmospheric-transparency data runs to 120.MB. The binary file (which gets mmaped) extracted from this data is much less than 20.MB.  I was planning to distribute only the binary data, which doesn't have text copyright notice or license headers in it.

What is the appropriate license (and copyright?) for the atmospheric-transparency data?  It was generated by running the ATRAN program which calculates all the molecular absorption lines for atmospheric gases <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SimRoof>:
 
  Dr. William D. Vacca of SOFIA-USRA NASA Ames Research Center has been kind enough to run ATRAN[51] for both wet and dry equatorial atmospheres. With this data, atmospheric transparency can be computed for any level of humidity.

ATRAN is not free software; but my understanding is that copyright doesn't apply to numerical data.

I don't have a tarball for SimRoof yet.  It will be a package similar to FreeSnell, which also distributes binary spectral data.



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none


Aubrey Jaffer <jaffer>

 

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